History
Internships
Public History Internships at UCA
The History Department at UCA will help qualified students identify, apply for, and carry out internships with museums, parks, historic sites, archives, and research centers in Arkansas and around the country. Internships are available for 3 hours of 4000-level History credits for students who have junior status (60 hours) and a GPA of 3.0 or higher and who have completed History 2320.
Recent past internship locations have included
AETN Public Television Station
Arkansas Game and Fish
Clinton Presidential Library (National Archives)
Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Faulkner County Museum
Historic Arkansas Museum
Little Central High National Historic Site
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center for African-American History
State Historic Preservation Office
UCA Archives
Washington Center (in DC!)
White County Clerk’s Office
Wilson Center (Little Rock)
Internships are designed to take about as much time as a standard course. During fall and spring semesters, interns commit 6 to 10 hours per week for a total of 84 to 140 hours for the semester. During the summer, students can work out a schedule with their internship sponsors to reach the same number of total hours.
During their internships, interns submit regular work logs to the History internship coordinator. They’ll also submit a final portfolio that will include a description of their site, the work they did, and what they learned about public history in general plus cumulative work logs and samples of their work. Site supervisors are responsible for submitting midterm evaluations and final evaluations of student work.
Are you interested in interning?
Are you an historic site, museum, or research center that would like to have an intern?
Contact Dr. Kimberly Little: klittle@uca.edu or 501-450-3216.
Interning is like History Research Methodology on steroids but much more fun. . . . It didn’t just prepare me for a future career; it helped me perform better in all of my classes.-- Rachel McKinney, intern at Mosaic Templars, 2007, and the Washington Center, 2008.